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Free Layer Cake Quilt Patterns to Create Your Own Masterpiece

Layer Cake Checkmate Shortcut Quilt Pattern

This lovely quilt will brighten up your room as soon as you place it there, thanks to its cheerful look, with a wide frame around the edges, and an 8 x 6 grid of squares inside the frame, alternating between solid ones and checkered squares made of four differently colored smaller squares.

by Fatquartershop

Layer Cake Lemonade Shortcut Quilt Pattern

Here’s a beautiful quilt that is fun and easy to make, and it looks great wherever you set it, with its interesting design of five narrow and four wide rows that alternate, thinner rows consisting of four colorful rectangles and two squares at the ends, while the wide rows consist of five vibrant squares.

by Fatquartershop

Garden games layer cake pattern

Get ready to cut a lot of squares in two sizes, small and large, then stitch them together into a fine quilt with a thin frame around the edges and a 6 x 7 grid of squares that alternate between solid and checkered ones made of nine smaller squares in a 3 x 3 grid, all in various bright colors.

pattern: Moonkinstitchery

Layer Cake Spools Shortcut Quilt Pattern

This quilt pattern is extremely fun to make and it will show off your love for sewing, because it features a 4 x 4 grid of large squares, each square made of four smaller squares that have a quarter of a spool shape in their corners, together forming large spools that are diagonally checkered, with contrasting backgrounds.

by Fatquartershop

Salt air lattice quilt

This quilt creatively takes advantage of its rectangular form, because it features a thin dark frame that has relatively wide lines around it on two sides only, emphasizing its shape, while the inside of the frame has a bunch of colorful squares made of eight triangles each, with a white lattice fence pattern across them all.

by Mommybydaycrafterbynight

Layer cake crumble

Crumble quilts are magnificent for using up your fabric scraps creatively, so when you use this pattern you won’t just get a gorgeous quilt with six rows with three wide rectangles inside each one, made of contrasting squares and thin rectangles, you’ll also do your share of saving the environment because you’ll reduce your fabric waste!

by Fatquartershop

Hexagons

From now on you can make quilts with hexagons easier than ever thanks to this pattern that shows you a fast way to make hexagons without having to cut out each individual shape, instead you just cut out circles and stitch them as instructed to get the perfect hexagons for your next quilting project.

by Hquilter

Layer cake tumble

Beauty lies in all things asymmetric, a statement proven right with this quilt that has many colorful squares on it, much like a lot of other quilts, but unlike all the other quilts, these aren’t arranged in rows nor columns but instead, placed all around as if you spilled them onto the background and left them so.

by Fatquartershop

Layer cake links

Here’s a lovely quilt with a design that looks like some vibrant chains are set diagonally across, but despite the complex look it’s just a grid of squares, each one made up of nine smaller squares, two of which are in the same color as the background, the big squares alternating with squares that are identical but in opposite colors.

by Fatquartershop

Layer Cake Custard Shortcut Quilt Pattern

This pattern features a 7 x 5 grid of squares, half of which are solid and in all kinds of colors, while the remaining consist of a 3 x 3 grid each, with five squares in the matching solid color and the other four made up of three rectangular strips joined together, then set so the middle two are oriented vertically and the other two horizontally.

by Fatquartershop

Garden party quilt

Frames galore is the main point of this adorable quilt that has a wide outer frame, then a thinner one inside it, inside of which there’s an 8 x 6 grid of squares with a double frame, filled with 2 x 2 grids of squares, with occasional square filled with colorful vertical or horizontal stripes instead.

by Allpeoplequilt

Candy swirls

Here comes a pattern that could make you drool because it features a bunch of diagonally oriented wrapped candy designs in different colors set on a white background, complete with diagonally oriented hourglass patches and their contrasting alternatives placed around the corners of each candy shape.

by Modafabrics

Layer cake coin quilt

Take a break from squares on your quilts with this lovely pattern that has a thin outer frame and an additional inner one in the color of the background, then four columns made of rectangles in similar hues stitched together, with three thin columns of vertical rectangles joined together into stripes between the big columns.

by Shequiltsalot

Precut layer cake quilt

Use up your scraps from previous quilting projects for this pattern to create a quilt with a 7 x 5 grid of squares that alternate between solid and striped, striped ones consisting of three rectangles joined by their long edges, with some of them oriented horizontally and some vertically.

by Polkadotchair

Layer Cake Lollies Shortcut Quilt Pattern

This quilt might seem like it has a design of random squares set all over the white background, but on second glance you’ll notice that the squares stack up into diagonal lines that are oriented differently than their neighboring lines, together forming a beautiful design like the famous lattice fences.

by Fatquartershop

Bluebird park layer quilt

The quilt here has a 4 x 5 grid of squares with diagonally oriented crystal shapes, and despite their complex appearance, the squares are extremely simple, they’re just a miniature 2 x 2 grid of solid squares and half-square triangles that have one half in the same color as all the other half-square triangles on the quilt.

by Sameliasmum

Recess pinwheels layer cake quilt pattern

Here comes a pattern that will help you use up your fabric leftovers creatively as you cut them up into triangles and stitch up many half-square triangles, then join four of them into big squares with pinwheels on them, and arrange those squares into a 4 x 5 grid on your new quilt!

by Quilt-it

Pinwheel Layer Cake Lap Quilt

You’ll need many triangles of identical sizes for this one, but make sure that half of them are in matching colors while the rest are in different colors because you’ll join them into squares that have matching backgrounds and colorful windmills on them, set in a grid of 4 x 3 squares.

by Newquilters

Five-slice layer cake quilt

Upcycle your remaining fabric scraps and create a fine piece of art along the way with this pattern as you use it to make a quilt that has a thin outer frame and a thicker inner one in contrasting colors, then a big 6 x 7 grid of squares made up of four rectangles around a small square, all in different colors.

by Yoansewingstudio

Clustered gems

Diamonds all over, this quilt has a luxurious vibe to it because it features a 6 x 7 grid of blocks that alternate between solid squares and diamond shapes set on a contrasting square behind it, not a single block being in the same color combination as any other on the quilt.

pattern: Moonkinstitchery

Spring picnic layer cake quilt block tutorial and pattern

Here’s a quilt that could make your eyes confused a bit because it has a design that resembles an optical illusion of colorful square shelves from a diagonal viewpoint, but it’s just a well-thought-out union of hourglass blocks joined together so their triangles form the interesting shapes with a perception of depth to them.

by Itsonlyfabricandthread

Windmill layer cake quilt pattern

This pattern takes a bit of work but the result is worth the effort, it’s a quilt that has a 4 x 5 grid of large squares with creative windmills on them, each windmill made up of a 4 x 4 grid of half-square triangles that have their halves matched with each other to create the colorful windmill design.

pattern: Materialgirlquilts

Autumnal layer cake quilt

The pattern we have here is a bit unusual because it has blocks that have wide checkered octagons with tiny squares on the middle of their top edge and sawtooth star frames alternating in a big 9 x 7 grid, with tiny squares that form lines connecting the sawtooth star frames with each other by their corners.

by Corianderquilts

Easy layer cake quilt block

Let the colors dance around on this quilt as you cut your fabric into small contrasting rectangles and join eight of them into big rectangles, then join those rectangles together in a 6 x 7 grid and make a beautiful quilt that will liven up any room you put it in.

by Auntemsquilts

Double slice layer cake quilt pattern

Not every quilt needs squares to look beautiful, says this one that features only rectangular pieces in different sizes stitched together into rectangular blocks and arranged in a 5 x 4 grid with thin borders between the rows, as well as a wide frame around the grid.

by Ilovequiltingforever

Scrappy hunter’s star layer cake quilt tutorial and pattern

Two gorgeous designs on one quilt, this lovely thing has a bunch of diamond shapes with hourglass patterns on them, as well as vibrant huntsman stars with rectangular double lines made of irregular rhombuses in various colors that connect the stars together and create frames around the diamond shapes.

by Hopefulhomemaker

Our free layer cake quilting patterns are the perfect way to get started with quilting. With our easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful designs, you’ll be creating stunning quilts in no time! So if you’re looking for a fun and creative way to spend your free time, sign up for our newsletter and start exploring the world of layer cake quilting today!